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DAWN NEESOM MIND OF MY OWN

AGEISM AT ITS WORST

Disney really needs to rethink how it portrays older characters…

So today I identified as an old hag. Actually, probably do most days, but today my Haggy-McHagface self-image was inspired by none other than Disney. Yep the happy, Technicolor world of perfect princesses, charming princes and talking mice.

Because evidently some Yanks think their American-as-apple-pie mega movie behemoth is responsible for inspiring prejudices against older generations.

So much so that New York has begun rolling out anti-ageism lessons in high schools in which students are being encouraged not to refer to older people as

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